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HAPPY REAL OPENING DAY!

It would have been even funnier if you’d said you assume there were pizza parlors involved!

Right, virulent racism was everywhere, in every part of the country. We see evidence of that today in widespread support for racist political policies. The difference for people who lived in Jim Crow areas during the Jim Crow era was the awesome power of local governments and police that was used to humiliate and dehumanize the target of their hate down to the most minute levels.

Maybe he's just saying stuff to stay in the good graces of that fine hunk of woman standing next to him.

Remember, there was an entire section of the country fiercely devoted to maintaining legal second-class resident status to an entire class of people.

You just had to know this grooming shit the Republicans have been on about lately didn't come out of nowhere.

I can't decide whether to believe they are paid operatives or merely useful idiots.

You had to be there … 😏

It never fails to knock me out when I contemplate the idea that a central tenet of Christian Nationalism is that Jesus Christ himself is on the side of Putin’s Russians and against Biden’s America.

“We have open borders and the Democrats must be stopped!” ”Here’s clear evidence that the borders are in fact not open.” ”Well, I never said the southern border was wide open …” 😉

Our Beloved Tigers. I think that started as an ASBDT thing.

Sure, let’s go with that. 😁

Happy Opening Day! This is the thread in which we have general non-game day discussions of what’s happening with OBT during the season.

Exclusive streaming games on Amazon Prime and Apple TV+, too. What a time to be a fan.

We’ll for sure try him against lefties, and if he hits them well he’ll get his 600 at bats. If he doesn’t hit them well, we’ll either platoon him, or he’ll still get his 600 at bats.

Oh, no doubt. We need Austin Meadows in left field and the DH spot right now more than we need Isaac Paredes playing third base at Toledo.

Fifteen pitchers on the roster, including ten in the bullpen. Jesus. So much for speeding the game up. Deaden the damn ball already.

I do have the Ticketmaster app. I click on the view barcode link and it shows me a QR code, but no barcode number.

Major League Baseball and their partners suck in so many ways. We're taking a driving trip through the south and swinging through Atlanta. I've never seen a Braves home game at home so I looked for tickets. That day happens to be against the Red Sox. Since it's the world champs and it's the Red Sox, even on a Wednesday, I figured tickets would be tight. Indeed, I saw only two seats available in a 300 section on the first base side, and nothing for several sections on either side of it, so i snapped it up. I figured I'd also need a parking pass so i got one of those, too. When I booked the hotel I saw I was able to get a decent deal within walking distance of the park, so I figured cool, I'll post the parking pass on Stubhub. I saw several parking passes already available there. Except I am completely unable to list even my tickets for resale, let alone the parking pass. Stubhub requires an alphanumeric barcode; neither the tickets or parking pass have one. On the Ticketmaster site, who are the Braves partner, they will allow me to transfer but not sell my tickets, and they won't allow me to even transfer the parking. I called the Braves and they basically shrugged and said, it's'a'no my problem, call Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster has no customer service. I'm stuck. It's only 31 bucks but really, what the fuck. They all suck.

You're right, I went into my account and I see that.

Not necessarily. LaHood is running in that district and he stands a good chance of winning.

I'd much prefer Ramirez over everyone except maybe a dozen players.

I've mentioned this before, maybe just a few weeks ago: I have seen where when I try to tip through my credit card, either for a carryout or sitting down at a restaurant, they ring me up for the bill amount but not the tip. Example: I get a bill for, let's say, $79.55; I write up a tip on the sheet of $15 for a total of $94.55, they ring up my card for just the $79.55. I started noticing this when I set up text alerts for all my credit card charges. I felt a little bad when this happened in a restaurant; for the carryout I just shrug and say oh well. One thing I have been doing more in restaurants is tipping cash even when I pay with a card. I get the bill for $79.55; I leave a ten and a five in the folder with the signed bill; on the tip line I write "CASH". The way I figure it is, here's the cash, the tax situation is between the staff, their god, and their Turbotax.